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    It is not the case that If two events occur at the same atemporal now and A-occur, they are A-simultaneous.

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    • 1.A-simultaneity is a relation defined within tensed time, presupposing a shared temporal framework among relata.
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    • 2.An atemporal 'now' lacks the dynamic A-series structure (past/present/future) that makes A-simultaneity intelligible.
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    • 3.Therefore, applying A-simultaneity across temporal and atemporal modes commits a category error, as McTaggart's analysis of the A-series requires internal temporal relations.
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    • 1.Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann's ET-simultaneity framework was introduced precisely because ordinary simultaneity fails when relating eternal and temporal events.
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    • 2.If standard A-simultaneity sufficed to relate atemporal and temporal events, the elaborate ET-simultaneity apparatus would be theoretically redundant.
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    • 3.The philosophical community's acceptance of ET-simultaneity as necessary entails that A-simultaneity cannot coherently obtain between atemporal and temporal events.
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    • 1.A-simultaneity is defined as occurring 'at the same now'.
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    • 2.Two events that share the same atemporal now and occur now satisfy the condition of occurring at the same now.
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